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Article: An in situ hermit crab from the Early Miocene of southern New Zealand

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 23
Part: 2
Publication Date: May 1980
Page(s): 471 – 474
Author(s): Fiona M. Hyden and Jacques Forest
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HYDEN, F. M., FOREST, J. 1980. An in situ hermit crab from the Early Miocene of southern New Zealand. Palaeontology, 23, 2, 471–474.

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Abstract

An Early Miocene (Burdigalian) hermit crab preserved within a struthiolariid gastropod shell is described. The specimen, here designated Pagurus difdenensis sp. nov., has close affinities with the Recent species P. spinulimanus (Miers) which is common in New Zealand waters.
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